Ironer



Oct. 20,1925. I

C. L. SCHWARTZ mousn Filed March 16, 1922 Patented Oct. 20, 1925.

UNITED STATES cnns'rnn L; scnwan'rz,

PATENT OFFICE.

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Appllcatlon'filed March 16, 1922. 'Serial as. 544,178.

To allavlwmit may concern:

Be it known that I, CHESTER L. SCHWARTZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful-Improvements in Ironers, of which thefollowing is a specification. My invention relates to improvements inironers,

. power driven ironers adapted for foot operv away.

.ation.

The object is to provide a power driven ironer comprising a rotatableroll and a movable shoe, asupport for one end of the roll so arrangedthat garments of greater. width than the length of the roll may be.

easily ironed in that clearance from'one end is provided. underneathsuch end of the roll and also to provide a shoe so mounted as to beautomatically capable of accommodating itself to varying thicknesses ofgarments between the shoe .and roll; and, further, in connection with afootoperated shoe, adjustable yielding connections adapted to press theshoe toward the roll.

The above and other objects. together with details of construction willmore fully ap-f pear from the following description, appended claim andaccompanying drawings, inwhich:

' Fig. 1 is an, end elevation partly broken Fig.2 is a sectional Viewtaken on lin 2'-2 of Fig.1. a r Fig. 3 is a front elevation of my ironerpartly broken away.

Fig. 4 's auview taken online of to permit easy operating. Extendingunderarticularly to improvements in neath the bedof the machine is ashaft 17 to which the foot pedal is connected by means of a long link18, and a short arm 19 mounted on the shaft, so that depression of thefoot pedal willrotate the shaft.

lPivotally mounted at each end of the ma chine is a bell crank arm 20,one end of which extends under the bed of the ironer and is connectedwith theshaft 17 by means of pivot ed links 21, so that when the shaftis rotated by -the foot pedal the end of the arms engaged by the linksare depressed.

The upper ends of the arms 20 areperforated and extending through suchperforations are' rods 22. These rods are connected at one endto theshoe, and they are adapted to hold said shoe yieldingly toward the rollby means of spiral springs 23, which encircle the rods and bear at oneend against the arms 20 and at the other against a stop 24.. The tensionof this spring is regulated by means of a pin 25, which is-received inperforations 26 through the end of the rod 22 that extends beyond thearm 20.

What I claim is: I k In an ironer, a frame provided with a pair ofangular supporting arms, a roll supported between said arms to providefree clearance underneath the roll from the, arms,'a pair of 1 standardscarried by the frame positioned on the opposite side of the roll, anarcuate shoe 'pivotally mounted between said'standa'rds to be swungtoward and away from said roll, pedal operated mechanism, a pair of hellcrank levers connected with said pedal operated mechanism to beactuatedthereby, a

pair of connecting links secured to said'shoe,

one extendingslidably through each of said bell crank levers, eachconnecting link beingprovided with spaced apart stops. one on each sideof the bell crank lever, a coil spring encircling' the connecting linkbetween the bell crank lever' and the stop nearest the shoe, to. holdthe shoe toward the rolland spring engaging said pedal operatedmechanism and exerting pressure thereon to normally hold the shoe awayfrom the roll.

CHESTER. L.- SCHWARTZ.

* adapted to hold the bell'crank lever against the stop farthest from--the shoe, and .a

